If you live in Switzerland you can get a 25Gbit fiber link to your home. That's 25Gbit *symmetrical* - upload *and* download. On a dedicated connection that's yours and yours alone. From multiple providers. It's the *ne plus ultra*, *magnifico*, *wunderschön*:

https://www.init7.net/de/internet/fiber7/

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@pluralistic Spain have a similar system to Switzerland. Fibre to the house and you can use any provider. Most are around 1Gb symmetrical, but 10Gb is available from 1 company.
@Sylocule @pluralistic In Italy we cheaped out and got 1G/300M, and we are stuck with that for decades to come. In big cities there's 10G/2G, but otherwise there's only Temu fiber - and some poor souls are still on VDSL...
@dukeboitans my family still got 100M/30M and it satisfies our needs quite well @Sylocule @pluralistic
I just wonder what use can a "plain user" do of 25G fiber!

@paoloredaelli

Videoconferencing, whether tied to work or play.

Synchronization of large file systems.

Or, a notable moment when on a 300/30 cable connection 10y ago: Dad and mom working from home, on conference calls from time to time, when kids got a snow day and (I am not joking) they had homework on laptops, a TV playing an anime stream, a laptop looking up playthru/cheat videos, and two online games going. That, for reference, was 2 adults & 2 teenage children.

Someday, let’s talk of my epiphany a decade ago, when 4 souls in an SUV north of Gilroy CA had 4 phones, a laptop and two tablets working accommodations, college reviews, gps/mapping, and misc. “if you build it, they will come” applies to all modes of data capacity.

@dukeboitans @Sylocule @pluralistic

@cascheranno @paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule

All the film editors, SFX people and sound editors in my neighborhood in Burbank who spent the first three months of the pandemic parked outside the studio gates on their work wifi, because the assets were too large to transfer otherwise.

@pluralistic Good point. And it’s not a ‘only in Hollywood’ career. Local tv companies’ news crews, local ad firms, etc. hit this wall: A friend’s career has largely been for local tv / radio / streaming ads, working out of his home. He shoots in 4k, shares with remote clients, digitally crops, etc.

One never quite knows who’ll find a use case. #longtail #goviral #KillerApp

@paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule